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Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

Tuesday, March 4 at 1:00pm

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Think Outside the Box

Open Playful Pedagogy Workshops

Wednesday, March 5 at 3:00pm

Open workshops adapt and apply purposeful play activities that include improv, creative writing, oral storytelling, movement, and other arts-based activities to a variety of pedagogical challenges and opportunities. This spring ...

Jazz Vespers: A Service of Celebration

Thursday, February 27 at 7:00pm

Guest artist Branford Marsalis provides musical leadership for this Jazz Vespers. Over the past ten years, Jazz Vespers has become a beloved tradition at Duke Chapel. Sing, rest, pray, and ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

Wednesday, February 26 at 1:00pm

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

Thursday, February 27 at 1:00pm

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Think Outside the Box

Open Playful Pedagogy Workshops

Thursday, February 27 at 3:00pm

Open workshops adapt and apply purposeful play activities that include improv, creative writing, oral storytelling, movement, and other arts-based activities to a variety of pedagogical challenges and opportunities. This spring ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

Tuesday, February 25 at 1:00pm

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Choir members singing in Duke Chapel

Evensong Singers Concert

Sunday, February 23 at 4:00pm

The Chapel’s Evensong Singers present this concert. Parking is available on a first-come-first-served basis in the Bryan Center garage at 125 Science Drive. ADA parking is available in the Bryan ...

Doyle's color grading work from White Noise

Film Color Grading

Sunday, February 23 at 2:00pm

This workshop covers the goals, constraints, methods, and tools of color grading and related tasks for motion pictures.

Eisenstein post-production charts

Workshop: Modern Post-Production Film Workflow

Sunday, February 23 at 10:30am

This workshop provides a maximalist, comprehensive overview of the post-production process. It identifies the tasks to be completed and the skills required from wrap to delivery, and suggests practices aimed ...

Playhouse Shorts

Saturday, February 22 at 8:00pm

Duke Players, the student-run producing arm of the Department of Theater Studies, presents short original scenes. Free admission, general seating.

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

Thursday, February 20 at 1:00pm

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

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“No Other Land” documentary film screening

Thursday, February 20 at 7:00pm

Basel Adra, a young Palestinian activist from Masafer Yatta on the West Bank, has been fighting the mass expulsion of his community by Israel’s occupation since childhood. He documents the ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

Wednesday, February 19 at 1:00pm

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

butterfly emerging from chrysalis, text: Melanated Chrysalis

Melanated Chrysalis: Dance MFA thesis event

Wednesday, February 19 at 7:30pm

Dance MFA candidate Sadé Jones presents MELANATED CHRYSALIS, an immersive performance with an ensemble of five members incorporating dance supported by sound, words and elements of ritual theater. This event ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

Tuesday, February 18 at 1:00pm

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

James Kibbie

Organ Recital Series: James Kibbie

Sunday, February 16 at 5:00pm

James Kibbie is a professor emeritus at the University of Michigan, where his 42-year tenure included service as University Organist and Chair of the Organ Department. Renowned as an authority ...

Photo of organ pipes. Text: Organ Recital Series

Organ Recital Series: James Kibbie

Sunday, February 16 at 5:00pm

James Kibbie’s program, performed on the Flentrop organ, includes music by Bach, Mozart, Price, Ropek, Sowande, and others. Dr. Kibbie is a Professor Emeritus at the University of Michigan, where ...

Location Sound Recording

Workshop: Film Sound Design

Sunday, February 16 at 2:00pm

This workshop steps through the tasks and skills of sound design for moving pictures, including dialog editing, foleying, and mixing.

three dancers reflected in mirror with text "THERE IS A LADDER"

There is a ladder: Dance MFA thesis event

Saturday, February 15 at 7:00pm

Dance MFA candidate Chania Wilson presents THERE IS A LADDER, a curated installation in the Rubenstein Arts Center in conjunction with a performance in von der Heyden Theater. Wilson has ...

Rebecca Wahls and poster for Good with seven women holding a thumbs up

Artist-in-Residence Rebecca Wahls “Good”

Thursday, February 13 at 8:00pm

GOOD Adapted from The Good Person of Szechuan by Bertolt Brecht by Theater Studies Artist in Residence Rebecca Wahls Reception immediately following at The Landing, Bryan Center A Woman is ...

Rebecca Wahls and poster for Good with seven women holding a thumbs up

Artist-in-Residence Rebecca Wahls “Good”

Friday, February 14 at 8:00pm

GOOD Adapted from The Good Person of Szechuan by Bertolt Brecht by Theater Studies Artist in Residence Rebecca Wahls Reception immediately following at The Landing, Bryan Center A Woman is ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

Thursday, February 13 at 1:00pm

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

Tuesday, February 11 at 1:00pm

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

Wednesday, February 12 at 1:00pm

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

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And you ghosts rise blue: Dance MFA thesis event

Wednesday, February 12 at 7:30pm

Dance MFA candidate Indigo Cook presents AND YOU GHOSTS RISE BLUE, an evening-length interdisciplinary performance with a thematic/poetic orientation towards ghosts – a paranormal opera of sorts that involves elements ...

Choir members singing in Duke Chapel

Choral Evensong Worship Service

Sunday, February 9 at 4:00pm

For centuries, the church has marked the transition from daytime to evening with psalms, prayer, and song. Duke Chapel’s Choral Evensong follows this historic pattern, using the liturgy of the ...

Lighting a scene from Nope.

Workshop: Cinema Lighting II

Sunday, February 9 at 2:00pm

Students are taught the deployment and manipulation of C stands, baby stands, combo stands, apple boxes, sandbags, rags, flags, bounce, black foil, gels, scrims, pacmen, C47’s, grip clips, Cardellinis, lollipops, ...

Lighting a scene from Nope.

Workshop: Cinema Lighting II

Sunday, February 9 at 10:30am

Students are taught the deployment and manipulation of C stands, baby stands, combo stands, apple boxes, sandbags, rags, flags, bounce, black foil, gels, scrims, pacmen, C47’s, grip clips, Cardellinis, lollipops, ...

Soldiers stand of front of a barrier marked Hollywoodgate

Full Frame Winter Road Show: HOLLYWOODGATE

Thursday, February 6 at 7:30pm

Full Frame partners with The Cary Theater in Cary, N.C. to host a screening of the Oscar®-shortlisted documentary HOLLYWOODGATE. This screening is free and open to the public, though attendees ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

Thursday, February 6 at 1:00pm

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

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Fountain Concert: “Improv Hour”

Thursday, February 6 at 5:15pm

Join us for a concert featuring our Jazz area students as they showcase their creativity and improvisational skills, playing jazz standards and original tunes.

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

Wednesday, February 5 at 1:00pm

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

Tuesday, February 4 at 1:00pm

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Photo of conductor and musicians. Text: Bach Cantata Series.

Bach Cantata Series: Solo Cantatas

Sunday, February 2 at 5:00pm

Johann Sebastian Bach’s church cantatas are often considered the pinnacle of German sacred music, works whose theological depth and emotional resonance touch deep places in the human soul. This year, ...

dancers moving and singing

Thresholding: Dance MFA thesis event

Sunday, February 2 at 4:00pm

Dance MFA candidate em Liptow presents THRESHOLDING, the culmination of several months of creative process with fellow Threshold Singers (a practice of singing at bedside to the sick and dying.) ...

Lighting setup with Hitchcock's hand

Workshop: Cinema Lighting I

Sunday, February 2 at 10:30am

A practical introduction to the manipulation of the characteristics of light, in order to modify, recreate, or invent light of any kind. We consider angle, intensity, color, softness, and falloff ...

Work in Progress by Hansol Jung

Friday, January 31 at 5:30pm

Workshop presentation of guest artist Hansol Jung as part of the Department of Theater Studies New Works Labs series. General admission, no reservations. Reception to follow.

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Full Frame Winter Road Show: UNION

Thursday, January 30 at 7:30pm

Full Frame partners with The Cary Theater in Cary, N.C. to host a screening of the Oscar®-shortlisted documentary UNION. Winter Road Show screenings are free and open to the public, ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

Thursday, January 30 at 1:00pm

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Duke in London - Arts Info Session

Duke in London-Arts Info Session

Wednesday, January 29 at 5:00pm

Join Duke in London-Arts Faculty Director, Torry Bend, to learn more about this 4-week summer program. Become familiar with London’s cosmopolitan character and experience the work of London’s culturally diverse ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

Tuesday, January 28 at 1:00pm

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

Wednesday, January 29 at 1:00pm

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Think Outside the Box

Open Playful Pedagogy Workshops

Tuesday, January 28 at 11:30am

Open workshops adapt and apply purposeful play activities that include improv, creative writing, oral storytelling, movement, and other arts-based activities to a variety of pedagogical challenges and opportunities. This spring ...

Choir members singing in Duke Chapel

Choral Evensong Worship Service

Sunday, January 26 at 4:00pm

For centuries, the church has marked the transition from daytime to evening with psalms, prayer, and song. Duke Chapel’s Choral Evensong follows this historic pattern, using the liturgy of the ...

Rouny-round dolly shot

Workshop: Camera Movement

Sunday, January 26 at 10:30am

Students are shown the surprisingly rich feature set of a modern tripod, and we quickly move through locked-off shots, fluid head moves, full and portable dolly moves, jib shots, gimbals, ...

Rouny-round dolly shot

Workshop: Camera Movement

Sunday, January 26 at 2:00pm

Students are shown the surprisingly rich feature set of a modern tripod, and we quickly move through locked-off shots, fluid head moves, full and portable dolly moves, jib shots, gimbals, ...

Photo of woman with scarf. Text: Sacred Choral Clinic.

Sacred Choral Clinic

Saturday, January 25 at 9:00am

Church choir singers and directors are invited to the Chapel’s second annual sacred choral clinic, featuring Dr. Pearl Shangkuan, an internationally renowned conductor and pedagogue, who is Professor Emerita at ...

Force of Water

Force of Water Film Screening and Panel

Thursday, January 23 at 7:00pm

Join us for a special screening of Force of Water, a documentary film that follows two communities, one in Ecuador and one in Uganda, as they mobilize to build their ...

A father and daughter embrace. They are at a dance wearing formal clothing.

Full Frame Winter Road Show: DAUGHTERS

Thursday, January 23 at 7:30pm

Full Frame partners with The Cary Theater in Cary, N.C. to host a screening of the Oscar®-shortlisted documentary DAUGHTERS. All Winter Road Show screenings are free and open to the ...

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loadbang: New Works by Duke Graduate Composers

Thursday, January 23 at 7:00pm

New York City-based new music chamber group loadbang (trumpet, trombone, bass clarinet, and baritone voice) premieres six new pieces written for them by Duke graduate student composers; Erich Barganier, Tyler ...

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Artist Reception

Thursday, January 23 at 6:30pm

This is the opening reception for the exhibition “Imagination and Promise: The Theological Aesthetics of Hope” by Jaden Dejesus Blango, a Duke Divinity School student. Selected as this year’s C. ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

Thursday, January 23 at 1:00pm

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

Wednesday, January 22 at 1:00pm

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

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Text & Pix January Gathering

Wednesday, January 22 at 6:00am

Students, faculty and community members are welcome to join the MFA|EDA and English/Creative Writing programs for the next gathering of the Text & Pix Collective! Hear from Professor Stan Abe ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

Tuesday, January 21 at 1:00pm

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

text: Israelism - with image of a Jewish woman, Simone Zimmerman's face, in red, white, and blue, with protest signs behind her

Israelism: A Film Screening and Discussion

Tuesday, January 21 at 7:00pm

A film screening of the documentary, Israelism, followed by a Q&A with Simone Zimmerman, a protagonist of the film and co-founder of IfNotNow. Tuesday, Jan 21 7pm (doors at 6:30pm) ...

Agnes Varda at the camera

Workshop: The Cinema Camera

Sunday, January 19 at 2:00pm

We begin by examining cameras, from phone to IMAX, as a set of connected systems: power, image taking, interface, mount, processor, display, storage, lens system, accessories, and physical attachment points. ...

Agnes Varda at the camera

Workshop: The Cinema Camera

Sunday, January 19 at 10:30am

We begin by examining cameras, from phone to IMAX, as a set of connected systems: power, image taking, interface, mount, processor, display, storage, lens system, accessories, and physical attachment points. ...

Photo of an old prayer book. Text: Singing the Psalms.

Singing the Psalms [in Goodson Chapel]

January 17, 2025

For centuries, monastic orders and other faith communities have prayed the Psalms cyclically from beginning to end. The musical character of the Psalms has long been expressed through various settings-from ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

January 16, 2025

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

January 15, 2025

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

January 14, 2025

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Choir members singing in Duke Chapel

Choral Evensong Worship Service

January 12, 2025

For centuries, the church has marked the transition from daytime to evening with psalms, prayer, and song. Duke Chapel’s Choral Evensong follows this historic pattern, using the liturgy of the ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

January 9, 2025

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

January 8, 2025

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Four stacked keyboards of the Flentrop organ.

Organ Demonstration

January 7, 2025

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Photos of choir members singing. Text: Epiphany Lessons and Carols

Epiphany Lessons & Carols

January 5, 2025

Based on the formula made famous by the Christmas Lessons and Carols from King’s College, Cambridge, this service follows a similar pattern of readings, choral anthems, and congregational hymns. Paid ...

Photo of Duke Chapel decorated for Christmas. Text: Lessons and Carols.

Christmas Eve Lessons and Carols

December 24, 2024

This is the traditional Lessons and Carols Christmas Eve Service with candlelight, scripture readings, and Christmas carols. *** Attendees of this service are advised to arrive early to allow for ...

Organ demonstrations at Duke Chapel

Organ Demonstration

December 18, 2024

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Organ demonstrations at Duke Chapel

Organ Demonstration

December 17, 2024

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Choir members singing in Duke Chapel

Choral Evensong Worship Service

December 15, 2024

For centuries, the church has marked the transition from daytime to evening with psalms, prayer, and song. Duke Chapel’s Choral Evensong follows this historic pattern, using the liturgy of the ...

Photo of candles. Text: Advent Lessons and Carols

Advent Lessons and Carols

December 12, 2024

Based on the formula made famous by the Christmas Lessons and Carols from King’s College, Cambridge, this service follows a similar pattern of readings, choral anthems, and congregational hymns. It ...

Organ demonstrations at Duke Chapel

Organ Demonstration

December 12, 2024

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Organ demonstrations at Duke Chapel

Organ Demonstration

December 11, 2024

This organ demonstration is an opportunity to stop in to hear a Duke Chapel organ or Bösendorfer grand piano played in the informal atmosphere of an open rehearsal. These demonstrations ...

Duke Holiday Concert

Duke Employee Holiday Concert

December 10, 2024

Staff and faculty throughout the University and Health System as well as members of the Duke University Retiree Association (DURA) will be invited to Duke’s annual Holiday Concert at the ...

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Gift Maker’s Lounge

December 10, 2024

Need a study break? Stop by the Co-Lab anytime between 11am-2pm on December 9th and 10th to make customized gifts for your friends and family! And because no cozy afternoon ...

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Gift Maker’s Lounge

December 9, 2024

Need a study break? Stop by the Co-Lab anytime between 11am-2pm on December 9th and 10th to make customized gifts for your friends and family! And because no cozy afternoon ...

Photo of a choir singing. Text: Handel's Messiah

Handel’s Messiah

December 8, 2024

Since 1933, Duke University Chapel has welcomed the holiday season with the sublime music of Messiah. From the haunting strains of “The people that walked in darkness” to the exuberant ...

Photo of a choir singing. Text: Handel's Messiah

Handel’s Messiah

December 7, 2024

Since 1933, Duke University Chapel has welcomed the holiday season with the sublime music of Messiah. From the haunting strains of “The people that walked in darkness” to the exuberant ...